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Same deal if you stand in line at a car impound lot. I once got my car towed on a snowy night, one of ~1000 other cars towed that night in Minneapolis (on Christmas Eve no less!).

The line at the impound lot was filled with poorer (looking) people, especially Somali, Hispanic, and Asian people for whom English was not their first language. My dad drove me there and stood in line with me, and I could tell it had a profound effect on his outlook. My dad has always been quite liberal, but being a rich, older white guy living in the suburbs, he hadn't seen firsthand some of the more subtle ways that poor / minority people are disadvantaged by the system.

Cool, I've also done a lot of thinking/work related to multiword expressions. A couple years back I did word segmentation on Khmer too. I'd be curious to hear more about your work!

A related idea is linguistic "compositionality"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_compositionality

I don't have hard numbers, but I know from experience that a large share of multiword expressions are non-compositional (the meaning of the larger phrase can't be inferred from its constituents), so in that case thinking of them as "over-divided" makes sense to me.

Just speculation, but at least in the US it is/was marketed as "legal weed". Nearly everyone that I knew trying it did so because their weed connect dried up.

Is the weed situation much more lax in the UK than in the US?

It's worth pointing out that the scripts of many widely spoken languages do not have a word divider (e.g. the space character in English). Mandarin, Japanese, and Khmer are some examples.

I'm aware of some studies that try to determine whether or not this slows down reading, but in my own experience it doesn't get in the way much.

No, K2 is much more harmful than LSD and marijuana. And it never would have caught on if marijuana were legal.

I am certainly no expert either, but maybe your piano tuner was referring to the practice of "stretching" an octave:

The tuning described by the above beating plan provides a good approximation of equal temperament across the range of the temperament octave. If extended further, however, the actual tuning of the instrument becomes increasingly inaccurate because of inharmonicity, which causes harmonics to run slightly sharp, as increasingly higher tones in the harmonic series are reached. This problem is mitigated by "stretching" the octaves as one tunes above (and to an extent below) the temperament region. When octaves are stretched, they are tuned, not to the lowest coincidental overtone (second partial) of the note below, but to a higher one (often the 4th partial). This widens all intervals equally, thereby maintaining intervallic and tonal consistency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_tuning#Stretch

Perhaps you should get 11 years for paying your taxes.

He didn't force his friend to join ISIS.

His friend is the one providing "personnel" to ISIS, by joining the organization, if that's in fact what happened.

> But there's a pretty cut-and-dried case against Ali Shukri Amin even without the Twitter drama. This isn't a teenager sentenced for a few tweets.

Absurd. What crime did he commit? "Radicalizing" someone is not a crime. Putting two people in contact is not a crime. Driving someone to the airport is not a crime. Relaying messages to someone's family is not a crime.

Why are wanting a LTR and wanting sex on the first date incompatible?

Ok, I was not asking to try and undermine your point. Just curious...

If you don't mind me asking, what minority group do you belong too?

My one and only experience with them happened in Belize. I had been snorkelling and turning over rocks when all of the sudden, before I even noticed it, there was a cloud of black ink and a little octopus darted away. Now as an adult I would just let the poor terrified creature escape, but at that age I was absolutely hellbent on finding it. The process of turning over random rocks and being inked was repeated a few more times before I finally cornered it and managed to grab it. My cousins and I dug a hole in the sand with water in the bottom, and observed the octopus changing colors. I remember it shifting through shades of translucent blue and red.

My cousin caught a trunk fish with his bare hands that same day too. Another weird creature, though surely not nearly as intelligent as an octopus.

Sorry for wasting your time dang. I am actually not new here, so I don't have the excuse of not knowing the guidelines, but I am normally much better behaved. It won't happen again!

"Then, in the Spring of 1971, US military officials gave the order to round up all of the pet dogs on the island and have them killed. About 1,000 pet dogs were taken – some straight from screaming children – and gassed with exhaust fumes from American military vehicles. The Chagossians were told that if they didn’t comply, the same would be done to them."

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/18/the-story-of-the-chag...

Well I don't know exactly how we're defining who is and who isn't a third world American, but the reasons for poverty are a lot more complicated than being "ignorant".

Mental illness, trauma, stress, physical disability / injury, side effects of living in a bad neighbourhood / neighbourhood targeted by law enforcement, trends in the local economy, etc. are some of the multifaceted reasons that people and families end up in poverty.